Isle of Man TT John McGuinness talks about making his 110th start in Sunday's Superbike race

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00:00 John McGuinness back to the TT for how many visits now John?

00:04 20? 34th year of the race, I make it 28 years, 28 years since your first race here.

00:10 Well 96, I never wasn't very clever at maths so I'm sure you look like a maths teacher.

00:15 Yeah yeah.

00:15 So maybe you you'd be out of word out yeah but I miss foot and mouth 2001, 17, 18 injuries but

00:21 yeah it's been a long period, a long period of time a lot of races start when we line up at

00:27 number one and we'll be 110th start. Yeah 110th start. It'll be my 110th start yeah so.

00:34 For the Superbike.

00:35 Only doing four races that makes 113 that's a bad number that I'm going to have to come back again.

00:40 Not a good number 13.

00:42 Might get a late call off or something.

00:44 So the decision not to ride a 600 this year, why? What was that?

00:48 I just think it's quite tough, it's quite physical for me, there's a lot going on.

00:55 I think that you know you need a real good 600, a real good package.

00:59 You know Honda are super busy with Nathan and Dean with 600s and the BSB thing so I just

01:08 sort of we made a decision just to do the four races which is you know 2007 I only did four

01:14 races 2008 was short you know they weren't the races available so you know I'm happy to do four,

01:19 ride the same bike, they're both well stocker and superbike they feel very similar so yeah I

01:24 love the big bikes everything revolves around the big bike races so yeah four big bike races and then

01:33 another one under our belt.

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